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July 10th, 2025

​ A newsletter by Anne-Laure Le Cunff​

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Hello friends,

I recently had dinner with a famous author, a scientist and an artist. Despite their obvious success, the conversation turned to how often they all felt “not smart enough.”

I experience this too, especially when I’m around accomplished people. Since I know many... See more

Email this morning:

Get over your ick and do the thing

A conversation with Isabel Unraveled

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Of all the conversations I had for Whoa, Volume 1, the one with Isabel was definitely the most challenging.

As in, it challenged me. It still does.

The way she writes with positivity and hope without a shred of irony? We talked

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"When dreaming, imagine success.

When preparing, imagine failure.

When acting, imagine success."

I wrote in Faith, Hope and Carnage , ‘Hope is optimism with a broken heart'. This means that hope has an earned understanding of the sorrowful or corrupted nature of things, yet it rises to attend to the world even still. We understand that our demoralisation becomes the most serious impediment to bettering the world. In its active form, hope is a... See more

Quote I’m pondering

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”​― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night